Virginia Hammon | Money Matters: A Fulcrum for Change | CACOR Zoom presentation | 2022-06-15

Speaker: Virginia Hammon

Topic: Money Matters: A Fulcrum for Change.

Time: Jun 15, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Summary:

Usually when we think about money matters we think about not having enough, but digging deeper, the money system has a formative influence on societal developments.  It can work for or against the general welfare.  It can hinder or support our efforts to create a sustainable and better world.  The money system consists of who creates the money supply, how it’s created, and how it’s distributed.  Changing the money system offers a powerful, and hopeful path.  Virginia Hammon will show how a change in the money system can leverage our other environmental and social justice endeavors.  It won’t fix our problems, but it will make fixing them possible.

Biography:

Virginia Hammon, MS, is a lifetime optimist who believes that when we have information, understanding, and decision-making skills, we make good decisions together.  Dedicated to researching the foundations of our current political dysfunction, she found a practical path to a better future in monetary reform.  She authored US Money: What is It? Why We Must Change.  How We Can (2017), and a shorter, illustrated version with Mark Pash, How We Pay for a Better World (2019), and recently served on the board of the Alliance for Just Money.  She is a mother of four, a Montessori educator, a Director of a graphic design studio in Teheran (Iran), a Head of School in Hawaii (USA), an internet start-up CEO, and a community mediator-activist.  She’s a member of the Portland League of Women Voters in Oregon (USA) and the Portland Modern Quilt Guild.  She’s made more than 50 quilts to illustrate how the money system works and twice been a featured artist at Northwest Quilt Expo.  Her website is https://HowWePay.US.

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